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Smallholders and Machines in the West African Palm Oil Industry, 1850–1950

JONATHAN E. ROBINS
African Economic History, November 2018, 46 (1) 69-103; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.46.1.69
JONATHAN E. ROBINS
Jonathan Robins () is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan Technological University. His first book, Cotton and Race across the Atlantic, was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2016. He is currently working on a global history of the oil palm industry.
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vol. 46 no. 1 69-103
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https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.46.1.69
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African Economic History
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0145-2258
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2163-9108
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  • Published online November 14, 2018.
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  1. JONATHAN E. ROBINS
  1. Jonathan Robins (jrobins{at}mtu.edu) is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan Technological University. His first book, Cotton and Race across the Atlantic, was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2016. He is currently working on a global history of the oil palm industry.
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